Though all Apple rumors should be taken with a huge pill of skepticism, the tidbit floating around today about a mini 7.85-inch screen iPad via The New York Times's Nick Wingfield and Nick Bilton is worth taking seriously.

Apple's move to stop paying into EPEAT, taking the green distinction away from 39 of its computers, not only made the hippies of San Francisco mad, but it got enough "loyal customers" on the phone to make the company change its mind.

If we've learned one thing from this Yahoo hack, it's that even after countless blogger and security expert pleas for smarter choices, people continue to create amazingly obvious passwords, leading us to wonder if they might be doing it on purpose. And if so, bravo!

Following an iPhone tracking privacy scandal earlier this year, Google will have to pay the biggest Federal Trade Commission fine ever given to a single company, which for a huge corporation like Google doesn't add up to all that much, showing how little impact even the largest fines have.

Silicon Valley doesn't like the looks of this Bravo reality show that will show the bro-ey realities of the tech start-up scene because it might tarnish this reputation as very important do-gooders techies think they have.

With another early female Facebook employee refuting Facebook's sexist culture, The Atlantic Wire spoke with Boy Kings author Katherine Losse, who gave us a little clarification on her interpretation of life at Facebook as it related to women.

A happy ending for the patent war Facebook entered with Yahoo earlier this year, with the final settlement including an expanded partnership between the two companies, sources tell AllThingsD's Kara Swisher.

The news last week The WELL, what many consider the first ever online social network, faces impending doom, has inspired Mike Barthel to write a history of Internet politics over at The Awl, explaining the conflicts modern social networks, like Facebook, face today.